Home Server Benchmarks
FS benchmarking of FreeBSD baremetal and within a VM against btrfs


nas4free baremetal: 

	Processor: AMD Turion II Neo N40L @ 1.50GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: HP ProLiant MicroServer, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 2741GB

	OS: FreeBSD, Kernel: 9.1-RELEASE (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.6.3 + LLVM 3.1, File-System: ufs

nas4free kvmed LVM: 

	Processor: AMD Phenom 9550 (2 Cores), Motherboard: Bochs, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 977GB, Audio: Intel 82801F HDA, Network: Intel PRO/1000 Legacy Connection 1.0.4

	OS: FreeBSD, Kernel: 9.1-RELEASE (x86_64), File-System: ufs

KVM LVM F18-host: 

	Processor: AMD Opteron 23xx (Gen 3 Class Opteron) (2 Cores), Motherboard: Bochs, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 2741GB, Network: Intel PRO/1000 Legacy Connection 1.0.4

	OS: FreeBSD, Kernel: 9.1-RELEASE (x86_64), File-System: ufs

KVM LVM F18/host tuned: 

	Processor: AMD Opteron 23xx (Gen 3 Class Opteron) (2 Cores), Motherboard: Bochs, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 2741GB, Network: Intel PRO/1000 Legacy Connection 1.0.4

	OS: FreeBSD, Kernel: 9.1-RELEASE (x86_64), File-System: ufs


Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3
64MB Random Read - 32 Threads
MB/s > Higher Is Better
nas4free baremetal ..... 2.04 |================================================
nas4free kvmed LVM ..... 1.09 |==========================
KVM LVM F18-host ....... 1.12 |==========================
KVM LVM F18/host tuned . 1.21 |============================


Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3
64MB Random Write - 32 Threads
MB/s > Higher Is Better
nas4free baremetal ..... 0.90 |================================================
nas4free kvmed LVM ..... 0.64 |==================================
KVM LVM F18-host ....... 0.61 |=================================
KVM LVM F18/host tuned . 0.68 |====================================


Compile Bench 0.6
Test: Compile
MB/s > Higher Is Better
nas4free baremetal ..... 66.49 |===============================================
nas4free kvmed LVM ..... 55.65 |=======================================
KVM LVM F18-host ....... 55.95 |========================================
KVM LVM F18/host tuned . 58.39 |=========================================


Compile Bench 0.6
Test: Initial Create
MB/s > Higher Is Better
nas4free baremetal ..... 52.95 |===============================================
nas4free kvmed LVM ..... 27.68 |=========================
KVM LVM F18-host ....... 35.96 |================================
KVM LVM F18/host tuned . 34.50 |===============================


Compile Bench 0.6
Test: Read Compiled Tree
MB/s > Higher Is Better
nas4free baremetal ..... 18.88 |===============================================
nas4free kvmed LVM ..... 9.50  |========================
KVM LVM F18-host ....... 11.07 |============================
KVM LVM F18/host tuned . 12.65 |===============================


Unpacking The Linux Kernel
linux-2.6.32.tar.bz2
Seconds < Lower Is Better
nas4free baremetal ..... 35.52 |====================================
nas4free kvmed LVM ..... 46.91 |===============================================
KVM LVM F18-host ....... 40.23 |========================================
KVM LVM F18/host tuned . 40.31 |========================================


PostMark 1.51
Disk Transaction Performance
TPS > Higher Is Better
nas4free baremetal ..... 298 |=================================================
nas4free kvmed LVM ..... 217 |====================================
KVM LVM F18-host ....... 241 |========================================
KVM LVM F18/host tuned . 247 |=========================================


Gzip Compression
2GB File Compression
Seconds < Lower Is Better
nas4free baremetal ..... 48.96 |=========================
nas4free kvmed LVM ..... 90.55 |===============================================
KVM LVM F18-host ....... 61.60 |================================
KVM LVM F18/host tuned . 58.68 |==============================


Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3
CPU Usage Monitor
Percent < Lower Is Better
nas4free kvmed LVM ..... MIN: 1  AVG: 27   MAX: 100 
KVM LVM F18-host ....... MIN: 0  AVG: 24   MAX: 100 
KVM LVM F18/host tuned . MIN: 1  AVG: 23   MAX: 100 


Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3
CPU Usage Monitor
Percent < Lower Is Better
nas4free kvmed LVM ..... MIN: 1  AVG: 29   MAX: 100 
KVM LVM F18-host ....... MIN: 0  AVG: 23   MAX: 100 
KVM LVM F18/host tuned . MIN: 2  AVG: 22   MAX: 100 


Compile Bench 0.6
CPU Usage Monitor
Percent < Lower Is Better
nas4free kvmed LVM ..... MIN: 10.2  AVG: 34.0  MAX: 90.7 
KVM LVM F18-host ....... MIN: 0.0   AVG: 27.6  MAX: 85.7 
KVM LVM F18/host tuned . MIN: 0.4   AVG: 27.1  MAX: 91.9 


Unpacking The Linux Kernel
CPU Usage Monitor
Percent < Lower Is Better
nas4free kvmed LVM ..... MIN: 0.8   AVG: 52.7  MAX: 80.5 
nas4free kvmed LVM ..... MIN: 14.0  AVG: 57.6  MAX: 74.8 
KVM LVM F18-host ....... MIN: 0.0   AVG: 52.1  MAX: 72.7 
KVM LVM F18-host ....... MIN: 1.2   AVG: 53.5  MAX: 68.8 
KVM LVM F18/host tuned . MIN: 0.8   AVG: 50.9  MAX: 72.1 
KVM LVM F18/host tuned . MIN: 0.4   AVG: 52.8  MAX: 92.6 


PostMark 1.51
CPU Usage Monitor
Percent < Lower Is Better
nas4free kvmed LVM ..... MIN: 1.6  AVG: 40.9  MAX: 75.8 
KVM LVM F18-host ....... MIN: 0.8  AVG: 30.0  MAX: 73.8 
KVM LVM F18/host tuned . MIN: 0.8  AVG: 28.3  MAX: 66.3 


CPU Usage Monitor
Phoronix Test Suite System Monitoring
Percent
nas4free kvmed LVM ..... MIN: 0  AVG: 38   MAX: 100 
KVM LVM F18-host ....... MIN: 0  AVG: 28   MAX: 100 
KVM LVM F18/host tuned . MIN: 0  AVG: 27   MAX: 100